How to Use getaway car in a Sentence

getaway car

noun
  • Which one of you is driving the getaway car?
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 12 Nov. 2025
  • But the thieves failed to get two prints into the getaway car.
    — Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
  • But this break-in was a bust, cops said, saying the crew fled the scene in the getaway car.
    — Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 12 Dec. 2024
  • In one scene, her character pulls up in a getaway car beside that of her friends.
    — Emily Lordi, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Police said that a third person was driving the getaway car, a white sedan.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The video ends with the women posing by their getaway car as sirens blare in the background.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The rapper died shortly after, and the suspect fled in a getaway car.
    — Nikki Dobrin, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Dropping more than a few, slipping and sliding their way out of the store into a getaway car.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Their next driving song will probably have tin cans dangling off the getaway car’s bumper.
    — Vulture, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Three men had approached the Subaru while a woman waited in a getaway car.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2023
  • Thieves sought to steal four prints, but those of the two queens did reportedly did not fit in the getaway car and were abandoned.
    — Rachel Raposas, People.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The getaway car once waited in a handicapped zone, then sped off the wrong direction down a one-way street.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Two other prints from the same series were left damaged on the street, likely too large to fit into the getaway car.
    — The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Five burglars were involved in each incident, with one staying in the getaway car.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The getaway car drove at freeway speeds on city streets, at times without its headlights on and in opposing lanes.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Five days later, the keys to the getaway car were found in Bell-Johnson's pocket.
    — S.e. Jenkins, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Neither the murder weapon nor the getaway car were ever recovered.
    — John L. Smith, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The pair drives away from the store a getaway car, before being seen inside of an empty bedroom kissing.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2023
  • In the second photo, the couple smile in their wedding attire while sitting in the back of a white getaway car.
    — Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 30 June 2025
  • The men and a third suspect, the driver of the getaway car, had been waiting in the area for at least an hour before the killing, police said.
    — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
  • At least one person will pull a gun, demand the customer’s money and then hop into a getaway car, Crout said.
    — Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 12 July 2024
  • When the bank manager runs out, aiming his gun at the getaway car, Clouseau beats him over the head with his baton.
    — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 5 Nov. 2023
  • He was first deported after driving the getaway car for a robbery as a teen in Georgia.
    — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The men allegedly sped off in a getaway car that detectives later found and processed, police said.
    — Staff Reports, Hartford Courant, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The reports don’t say whether investigators found him or determined if that was the getaway car.
    — Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
  • He is accused of throwing McKay to the ground and dragging her into the street in front of the getaway car.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 10 July 2024
  • The pair had a town hall wedding ceremony and drove a Porsche 356 getaway car.
    — Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 30 June 2026
  • The couple left their nuptials in a getaway car from Hot Rayz Limousines.
    — Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • In 1976, he was arrested a few months after his palm print was found in a getaway car that had been used in a bombing.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Serafini then left the home on foot to meet with Scott, who had been waiting for him in the getaway car to drive back to Nevada.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 17 Mar. 2026

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